WASHINGTON — One Connecticut lawmaker decided to skip his speech to a joint session of Congress and others had differing reactions to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's forceful condemnation of U.S. efforts to reach an agreement with Iran over nuclear weapons.

HARTFORD — With state income tax collections from Wall Street slower than expected, the comptroller is now projecting the state deficit at $101 million for the current fiscal year.
Comptroller Kevin Lembo, a Democrat, said Monday that the state had...

U.S. car buyers would have to get most repairs subject to a recall performed before registering their vehicles under legislation being introduced by two Democratic senators concerned that too many defects are ignored.
The bill by Sens. Edward Markey of...

Imagine getting a layoff notice, then being ordered to train your replacement.
That's what has happened to hundreds of information technology employees at Southern California Edison. Since last summer, Edison, which serves nearly 14 million customers,...

Far fewer veterans than expected are taking advantage of a new law aimed at making it easier for them to get private health care and avoid the long waits that have plagued Department of Veterans Affairs facilities nationwide.
Only 27,000 veterans have...

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At first blush, it sounds like a good idea: require the labeling of genetically engineered foods so that consumers can make informed choices about what they eat. Yet such a law, proposed by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and other senators, simply caters to unjustified worries and makes no sense scientifically.
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HARTFORD — Liam E. McGee, who led The Hartford insurance company through a transformation after the 2008 financial crisis and helped rid the city of one of its most visible eyesores, died Friday. He was 60.
McGee was CEO from Oct. 1, 2009, through July 1, leaving as cancer worsened. He remained chairman until Jan. 5.
The illness was publicly disclosed in January 2013, when the company said McGee had a brain tumor removed and that he was receiving low-dose chemotherapy.
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The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are "accidents waiting to happen," two U.S. senators said Sunday.
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Whether consumers are buying brand-name or less-expensive, store-brand vitamins or supplements, they expect what's inside the bottle to match what's on the label.
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NEW YORK— The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are "accidents waiting to happen," two U.S. senators said Sunday.
Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke at New York's Grand Central Terminal, the departing point for the Metro-North Railroad train that crashed into a car this month in Valhalla, north of the city. The car's driver and five train passengers died.
Although the cause of the collision has not been determined, the...